The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: The Calidore String Quartet Tickets

An alum of CMS’s Bowers Program and now in its 12th season, the Calidore String Quartet has garnered recognition as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of the string quartet repertoire. Beginning our Winter Festival, the Calidore offers a program spanning from Vienna to London, concluding with Britten’s powerful Second Quartet, composed as a commemoration of the death of Purcell.

• Bach/Mozart - Selections from The Well-Tempered Clavier, K. 405 (c. 1740, arr. 1782) • Felix Mendelssohn - Quartet in E minor for Strings, Op. 44, No. 2 (1837) • Henry Purcell - Chacony in G minor for String Quartet (arr. Britten) (c. 1678, arr. 1948, rev. 1963) • Benjamin Britten - Quartet No. 2 in C major for Strings, Op. 36 (1945)